On 68 richly illustrated pages, you will see an impressive variety of initiatives and projects undertaken by a whole range of volunteers, supported by a small group of staff.

Recently, the European Parliament adopted the so-called ‘right to repair’. The aim of this directive is to remove obstacles that make repairs more difficult. Luxembourg must also implement this directive in the next few years.

The Mouvement Ecologique recently had a stimulating two-hour exchange with Agriculture Minister Martine Hansen and her officials.

” To Change Direction towards Social Justice How unfairly wealth is distributed and what should be done about it ” was the title of an online event organised by Mouvement Ecologique with Action Solidarité Tiers Monde on 15 May 2024. The guest speaker was Manuel Schmitt, social inequality officer at Oxfam Germany (*).

‘Bunny in the pit sat and slept, sat and slept’… . Unfortunately, even when the mower was so close to him that it was too late to escape.

As required by EU law, the grid operator Creos published a draft grid development plan for Luxembourg in mid-April. The Mouvement Ecologique submitted its comments in a public consultation.

The Mouvement Ecologique and the Oekocentre Pafendall recently had an inspiring meeting with officials from the CGDIS (Corps grand-ducal d’incendie et de secours).

Today, 3 May 2024, the EU has used up nature’s budget for the entire year. Luxembourg reached this already on February 20th.

The Mouvement Ecologique and Oekozenter Pafendall launched their participatory campaign ‘Aktioun Hues’ shortly before Easter. You can find some initial feedback on how the campaign went here. We had already received over 30 reports of the cute animal over the Easter period, and now 80 have been collected on iNaturalist. Some of them surprised even us, like the airport and street bunnies pictured here.

Yesterday, Wednesday, was an extremely important day in the EU Parliament. A Commission proposal was tabled that envisaged a further massive weakening of the environmental requirements for agricultural activities to protect biodiversity and water bodies. Important requirements are being cancelled under the pretext of flexibility. This at a time when recent analyses show that – not least due to misguided agricultural policies – 2 million species are threatened with extinction worldwide.

… was the title of the conference with Dr Axel Hochkirch, an internationally renowned insect researcher and curator of the ecological department of the local natur musée. The focus was on a recent study that made international headlines in winter.

The extinction of species is even more dramatic than previously assumed. It is not one million species that are threatened with extinction, as the World Biodiversity Council (IPBES) stated a few years ago, but almost 2 million, as recent analyses show. Luxembourg is no exception, quite the contrary: three quarters of the species protected in Europe are endangered in this country and half of the protected habitats are in a poor conservation status.